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New ATM hack uses "trigger" card
- kiwidrew 17y agoI've always thought it was rather silly (and extremely overkill) to use Windows as the operating system for an ATM. After all, an ATM has relatively simple requirements, which haven't really changed all that much in the last ten years. Of course, this is Diebold we're talking about. Back in the days of voting machine bashing a common refrain was "they make ATMs, so surely they know how to make a voting machine secure". Well, perhaps we made the wrong assumption about how secure their ATMs really were... :)
- Tangurena 17y agoThe only solution to this is going to be something like what Heartland is going to have to do - encrypt everything from the card swipe all the way to the banks on the other end. In case you have forgotten, Heartland processes about 100,000,000 credit card transactions per month and for a period of time last year, some trojans were operating that were harvesting the magnetic tracks of swiped cards. The trojans hid on the hard drive, and until auditors started looking at the temp files on the drives (and matching what created the temp filess) the stuff hidden in unallocated drive areas weren't found. http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/heartlands-new-encryption-strategy-let-em-in-but-limit-how-much-they-can-get/ http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/heartlands-n... http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/heartland-sniffer-hid-in-unallocated-portion-of-disk/ http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/heartland-sn...
- asciilifeform 17y agoRe: Windows: ATMs with a BSOD are still a common sight in the DC area.